auriferous

• Another source states that "Some have supposed Havilah to be the same as the auriferous Colchis of the Ancients". —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• SearchGold now controls 636 km2 in Burkina Faso, a country very prospective for gold characterized by the presence of birimian greenstone belts recognized for their auriferous potential. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
• Target 1 is a high-priority gold-in-till anomaly overlying the broadly auriferous (600 ha) caldera complex in Richardson Township 55 km northwest of Fort Frances, Ontario. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
• Abstractedly, with reference to any country, it must be derived from the combined accounts and different phases of truth afforded by many CHAPTER ONE RICHNESS AND EXTENT OF THE GOLD FIELDS Destiny, which has lately riveted our attention on the burning plains of the extreme East," says the Times of 9th July, "now claims our solicitude for the auriferous mountains and rushing rivers of the Far West and the shores of the remote Pacific. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields
• Specimens of quartz that my husband picked up at haphazard have been assayed and found to be auriferous, with the gold very finely disseminated; an expert would undoubtedly have selected even more brilliant specimens than these. —  Southern Arabia

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